PROMPT #432

Reena’s Xploration Challenge

I give you a sentence this week to act as a thought-starter.“

A thought brushed my palm, then scattered like a startled bird.”

Let us see where the bird takes you 🙂

The Bird Between Thoughts

A thought brushed my palm, then scattered like a startled bird.

I almost caught it.

That fragile thing—
half memory,
half feeling.

It arrived softly,
like something forgotten
returning without warning.

For a moment,
I knew it.

Knew the shape of it,
the ache of it,
the quiet truth
it carried.

But thoughts are strange creatures.

Some perch gently,
waiting to be understood.

Others—

flutter wild-
winged,
afraid of being named.

And before I could hold it,
it was gone.

Leaving only
the faint warmth
against my skin,

and the feeling
that something important
had visited me—

if only for a moment.

So I stood there,
hand open to the sky,

wondering
if some thoughts
aren’t meant to stay—

only to remind us
that even the unseen
still finds ways
to touch us.

With love

— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫

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